[Explanation of a color]

The Rokōcha, it is a bitter close to greenish brown greenish brown. It is a dye that the name was given because the so-called Ouji Rokou that the Shumei Segawa Kikunojo second generation Kabuki actor of Edo used habitually. Good popularity of this color is extraordinary, women in Edo has to imitate all together, it was positioned at the top of the fashionable color for more than seventy years along with the popularity of the Rokou of generation to generation. It is more common in costume of ukiyo-e beauty and staining article at the time, it’s not surprising that the epidemic first time. For this reason, it can be said to be the color most typical as a color name bearing the name of a specific person.

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